Led to place himself even to the right of the Guardian editorial in his rush to endorse Tory back bench attacks on lesbian and gay policies. While he was explaining that the Labour Party had never At the Beating the Blues conference organised by the Fabian Society on 7 December, attended by virtually the entire Labour front bench, erstwhile ten wilders view that Labour was not seen as being to do with 'ordinary people', but with 'women, ment of support for gay rights later in the same week. We can be sure further Labour retreats on issues such as Central America are in the pipeline.
The failure to respond sharply to the privatisation of British Petroleum following the 19 October crash, the failure to lead a concerted campaign against the poll tax, or the Tories Housing or unilateralism, the urgency with which the leadership is engaged upon distancing itself from the slightest sign of trade union militancy, are all indicators of the failure to respond to the new openings in the political situation. Just at the moment when Labour should be shifting to the left - and would gain popularity from it - the leadership is intent on trying to shift the entire party to the Overcoming the gap between the new openings in the political situation and the rightwing course being pursued by the party leadership is now the chief task of the left in the Labour movement.
rights and principles.
proclaimed their conversion to the - a view pressaging the abandonSocialist Action . 11 Dec 1987